Lauren Mendelsohn is a cannabis attorney and activist. In college at the University of Maryland, Lauren was involved with NORML and Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP). When she moved to the West Coast for law school at the University of California, Irvine, she started a new chapter of Law Students for Sensible Drug Policy there, and became an active member of Orange County NORML. She was a Junior Partner at the Law Offices of Omar Figueroa in Sonoma County, where she worked since 2016, and is currently a partner at Vicente LLP. She sits on the boards of the International Cannabis Bar Association and the Sonoma County Growers Alliance. She also volunteers as a chapter leader for the Sonoma County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, and is a member of Americans for Safe Access California Advisory Committee.
